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Le Pen backers can’t stay anonymous

Associated Press

  February 22, 2012

French far right leader Marine Le Pen lost a legal battle yesterday in her bid to run for president, with the Constitutional Court ruling that her backers’ names must be made public. The decision upholds current electoral law and puts added pressure on Le Pen and her anti-immigrant party two months ahead of presidential elections.

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